Memorable Quotes from F. Murray Abraham
21 quotesOrgy Announcement in Room 340
Chris
There will be an orgy beginning in room 340 in exactly 4 minutes! Orgy in 340, 4 minutes!
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Confrontation Over Money and Drugs
Tony
Bunch of cowboys. Somebody fucked up. Yeah, well, I'll check it out right away. You do that, Omar. You do that.
[''At a pay phone'']
Omar
You still got the money?
Tony
Yeah. And I got the yeyo.
Omar
You got the yeyo? Yeah, right. Bring it here.
Tony
Fuck you. I'm taking it to Lopez myself. Not you, me.
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The Pain of Unrecognized Talent
Antonio Salieri
Your merciful God. He destroyed His own beloved rather than let a ] share in the smallest part of His glory. He killed Mozart and kept me alive to torture! 32 years of torture! 32 years of slowly watching myself become extinct. My music growing fainter, all the time fainter till no one plays it at all, and his...
[[mediocrity]
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Perceptions of Normalcy and Queerness
Abe
People like you think the whole world is queer.
Chris
It's lucky for people like you it is!
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Salieri's Reaction to Mozart's Behavior
Antonio Salieri
That was Mozart. That! That giggling dirty-minded creature I had just seen, crawling on the floor!
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Abenomics of Kindness in The Ritz
Proclo
You're a good man, uh...?
Abe
Abe.
Proclo
Abe. Abe. I'm gonna have a novena said for you when I get back to Cleveland. What's your last name? Abe what?
Abe
Leftkowitz.
Proclo
I'll still have a novena said for you when I get back.
Chris
You know, I had a novena said for me once. I asked to wake up gorgeous.
Abe
So what happened?
Chris
Well look at me!
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Strange Curse Described by Chris
Chris
It's like some strange heterosexual gypsy curse was put on this place!
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Revelation of Hidden Victims in Thir13en Ghosts
Rafkin
You son of a bitch! You said he only killed nine people! There's over forty victims here!
[''Psychically probes the junkyard, then yells out in pain'']
Cyrus
Nine when he was alive. He's added a few since then.
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Tension Among Friends in Scarface Scene
Tony
Fuck!
Manny
¿Qué pasó, man? (What happened?) ¿Qué pasa, man? (What's happening?)
Tony
Your big shot friend better come up with something soon, I didn't come to the U.S. to break my fucking back!
Manny
He's coming! What do you want from me?!
Tony
Fucking thing!
Manny
I told you.
Diner boss
¡¿Qué le pasa?! (what's going on?) What's wrong with you?!
Diner patron
Jamón, jamón, ponle jamón! (There isn't enough ]. I want more ham.)
[''Holds his plate of untouched sandwiches to Manny''; [w:ham|ham]
Manny
Que más carne ni más carne así viene el sándwich mang! (What more meat there is never more meat (What meat you got is all you get) This is how the sandwich comes, my clueless friend! (That is just how your portion sizes that you are served already just are and will be))
Manny
Look at that one. That one in the pink. She's beautiful. Look at those ].
[''Observes across the street to upscale social club Little Havana with guests mingling at door''; [w:breast|titties]
Tony
Look at that punk with her. What's he got that I don't have?!
Manny
Well, he's very handsome, for one thing, you know? I mean, look at the way he dresses. Come on. That's style. Flash, pizzazz. And a little ] doesn't hurt nobody.
[[w:Cocaine|coke money]
Tony
Look at this. Fucking onions. I ought to be picking gold from the street.
[''Brings up hands and looks at them'']
Diner boss
There's two guys looking for you out there. Un grande y un pequeño. (A big one and a small one)
Manny
That's him, man. That's El Mono. (The Monkey) I told you.
Diner boss
Don't stay too fucking long. We've got a lot of work to do, so...
Manny
!Qué se cuenta, señores! ¡Qué se cuenta! (What's the story, gentlemen! What is told!) Waldo, this is my friend, Tony Montana, I've been telling you about. Tony, that's Omar Suarez and that's Waldo Rojas over there.
Omar
I got something for you.
Manny
Yeah? What do we gotta do?
Omar
Gotta unload a boat. ]. twenty-five tons. You get $500 each.
[[w:Cannabis|Marijuana]
Manny
$500? That's great.
Tony
You gotta be kidding. $500? Who do you think we are, baggage handlers?! The going rate on a boat is $1,000 a night. You know that.
Omar
First you gotta work your way up to $500 idiot.
Tony
After what I did for you in Freedomtown?! What was that?! That Rebenga hit was a game of ]?!
[[w:Dominoes|Dominoes]
Omar
That was something else.
Manny
Shut up! Take it easy!
Omar
What's with this dishwasher, chico〈ịṇsịgṇịḟịċạṇt boy〉?! Don't he know we could've got another space cadet to hit Rebenga cheaper?! Fifty bucks!
Tony
Then why didn't you? Don't call me no fucking dishwasher, or I'll kick your monkey ass. Who the fuck are you?
[''Omar reaches for his gun and Waldo thwarts him and Manny manhandles Tony back'']
Manny
You can't do that, man!
Waldo
]!
[[w:Colombians|The Colombians]
Omar
Ah si, okay, all right, big man! D'you want to make some big bucks? Let's see how tough you are. D'you know something about cocaine?
Tony
You kidding me or what?
Omar
¡Digame! (Tell me!) There's a bunch of Colombians coming in Friday. New guys. They say they got two keys for us for openers. Pure coke. Hotel in Miami Beach. I want you to go over there. If it's what they say it is, you pay em and bring it back. Do that, you get five grands.
Manny
Go, pay them, bring it back, yeah?
[''To Tony'']
Omar
You know how to handle ]?
[[w:machine gun|a machine gun]
Manny
Yeah, man. We were in ]. Cool.
[[w:Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces|the Army]
Omar
You gonna need a couple other guys.
Manny
That's no problem.
Omar
Be at Hector's Bodega at noon Friday. You get the buy money then. If anything happens to that buy money, ¡ay, pobrecito! (Oh, poor thing) my boss will stick your heads up your asses faster than a rabbit gets fucked!
[''Throws white stick at Tony and Waldo accelerates the vehicle backwards'']
Tony
I'm scared.
[''Sarcastically'']
Manny
Hey, you're pushing your luck.
Tony
Don't worry.
Manny
That was dumb, ese. (my good friend)
Tony
Manny, you worry too much. You'll have a heart attack. You act like that guy's doing you a favor or something.
Manny
What's this with the Colombians?
Tony
What does it matter?
Manny
He says "Colombians," and you make these eyes...
Tony
I don't like fucking Colombians! Okay?
Diner boss
What you guys doing? There's a lot of dishes to be washed.
Tony
Wash em yourself. ¡Coño! (Damn you!) I retire!
[''He throws his apron at the boss's head'']
Diner boss
What the fuck you gonna do now? Don't come back here!
Tony
I gotta look after my investment!
Diner boss
Fuck you guys!
Manny
Close the shop!
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Measuring Anger on a Scale of Ten
Proclo
How pissed off is he?
Chris
On a ten-scale? Ten.
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The Divine Experience of Music
Antonio Salieri
Extraordinary! On the page it looked nothing! The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse. Bassoons, basset horns - like a rusty squeezebox. And then, suddenly, high above it, an oboe. A single note, hanging there, unwavering. Until a clarinet took it over, sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I had never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God.
[about the beginning of the third movement of Mozart's [[w:Serenade No. 10 (Mozart)|Serenade No. 10]
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A Terrifying Plan of Revenge and Music
Antonio Salieri
My plan was so simple that it terrified me. First, I must get the death mass and then I must achieve his death....His funeral! Imagine it! The cathedral, all Vienna sitting there. His coffin, Mozart's little coffin in the middle. And then, in that silence, music! A divine music bursts out over them all. A great mass of death! ] for Wolfgang Mozart. Composed by his devoted friend, Antonio Salieri! Oh what sublimity! What depth! What passion in the music! Salieri has been touched by God at last. And God forced to listen! Powerless, powerless to stop it! I, for once, in the end, laughing at him! The only thing that worried me was the actual killing. How does one do that? Hmmm? How does one kill a man? It's one thing to dream about it. Very different when, when you, when you have to do it with your own hands.
[to Father Vogler; [w:Requiem (Mozart)|Requiem mass]
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Commitment to a Clear Path
Chris
I'm going straight.
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Salieri's Declaration of Hostility
Antonio Salieri
From now on, we are enemies... You and I. Because You choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only the ability to recognize the incarnation. Because You are unjust, unfair, unkind, I will block You, I swear it. I will hinder and harm Your creature on earth as far as I am able. I will ruin Your incarnation.
[addressing a crucifix]
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Champion of the Voices Unheard
Antonio Salieri
I will speak for you, Father. I speak for all ] in the world. I am their champion. I am their ].
[to Father Vogler; [mediocrities; [w:Patron saint|patron saint]
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Longing for Divine Expression Through Music
Antonio Salieri
All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing... and then made me mute. Why? Tell me that. If He didn't want me to praise Him with music, why implant the desire? Like a lust in my body! And then deny me the talent?
[to Father Vogler]
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Childish Games and Adult Realities
Kalina
Who are you to ]?
[[w:Playing God 〈ethics〉|play God]
Cyrus
Playing is for children.
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The Madness of Musical Obsession
Antonio Salieri
So rose the dreadful ghost from his next and blackest opera. There, on the stage, stood the figure of a dead commander. And I knew - only I understood - that the horrifying apparition was ], raised from the dead! Wolfgang had summoned up his own father to accuse his son before all the world! It was terrifying and wonderful to watch. Now a madness began in me. A madness of a man splitting in half. Through my influence, I saw to it ] was played five times in Vienna. But in secret, I went to every one of those five - all alone - unable to help myself, worshipping sound I alone seem to hear. And hour after hour, as I stood there, understanding even more clearly how that bitter old man was still possessing his poor son from beyond the grave, I began to see a way - a terrible way - I could finally triumph over God.
[[w:Leopold Mozart|Leopold; [w:Don Giovanni|Don Giovanni]
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A Prayer for Greatness and Immortality
Antonio Salieri
While my father prayed earnestly to God, to "protect commerce", I would offer up secretly the proudest prayer a boy could think of: "Lord, make me a great composer. Let me celebrate Your glory through music and be celebrated myself. Make me famous through the world, dear God. Make me immortal. After I die, let people speak my name forever with love for what I wrote. In return, I will give You my chastity, my industry, my deepest humility, every hour of my life. Amen". And do you know what happened? A miracle!
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Abe's Son Is Getting Married
Chris
Abe, how is that gorgeous son of yours?
Abe
You're too late, he's getting married.
Chris
That's terrific! You give him my love, will you?
Abe
Sure thing.
Chris
Does he need someone to practice with?
Abe
He's been practicing already, that's why he has to get married.
Chris
Well compared to me, Abe, she would have to be an amateur.
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Faith and Unity in the Face of Adversity
Marco D'Aviano
Your Majesties, Excellencies, I am only a poor monk. I know nothing of strategies or plans of attack. But I do know that Vienna represents the survival of Christianity. I know that if you have faith, you will win. If you remain united, you will win. So if the King of Poland says he knows how to win this battle, let him explain it to us.
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